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Manual workflows
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Dan Bitzer
A manual workflow is defined as a workflow that has no trigger and is instead manually started by a store manager. Existing workflows would be considered 'automatic' workflows in comparison.
A manual workflow would need a primary data type (e.g. order, customer, subscription) which would define which rules, actions and variables could be used in the workflow.
A manual workflow could be started from a related admin page. E.g. an order manual workflow could be initiated from the edit order page. Alternatively, manual workflows could be started from a custom interface that allows selecting a set of items to be triggered. It would be useful to select items by a date range and select multiple items by ID.
This system would be a replacement for the manual order and subscription trigger tools.
If you have any use cases for manual workflows please add them as a comment :)
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The Globe BloG
I installed the automatewoo plugin on my wordpress, I don't know why the workflow is not working after setting it up. I noticed after I filled the necessary details and I saved. Everything will just wiped off. I attached screenshots for better understanding. Can you please send me solution to this.
JPry
@The Globe BloG: This page is just for ideas for improving AutomateWoo. We'd be happy to help you via our normal support channel: https://woocommerce.com/my-account/create-a-ticket/
Christopher Michael
Hi friend, any update on this?
Dan Bitzer
@Christopher Michael: we are currently finishing up development of this feature. We should have a release ready in the next month or so.
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Rachael P
I would love to be a beta tester for this feature
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April
We would love to be able to manually trigger a workflow by pasting a list of comma-separated email addresses, the same way the opt-out importer is done. We have many customers who sign up for our newsletter, and receive a coupon to use on their first order, but months down the road they are still subscribed, and still opening/clicking our marketing emails, but have yet to convert. It would be great to have a workflow that didn't require an automatic trigger, that we could manually fire to send these subscribers a reminder of their first-time customer discount.
This would be especially useful now, when so many are watching their budgets.
Andrew Nelson
This is an absolute must for many of our clients.
Our ideal situation would be injecting a button into the back end single order page that triggers a workflow that prints an internal receipt.
Tiago Rodrigues
Must-have feature. Please, move this feature to the top of your list. Call me if you need help. I'm working with one client that uses AutomateWoo and being stucked at "Trigger" mandatory field is like having half tool to do double work.
Marcy Capron Vermillion
After a consultation, my team would hit a button to allow a workflow to trigger. Currently hacking it by having them add a specific word to an order note, to trigger the workflow. Can't wait for this!
Dan Bitzer
@Marcy Capron Vermillion: Thanks for the feedback!
Lauren Goldstein
I would love to see us be able to manually trigger based on order # (either single order or the ability to add multiple orders at one time) as well. That would be a huge help to the issue we have now!
Dan Bitzer
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Lauren Goldstein
@Dan Bitzer: Do we have an ETA? I see it has been planned since April so I am curious when this will go live since we have an urgent need for this due to the botched move from AW to WooCommerce platforms.
Dan Bitzer
@Lauren Goldstein: It has been planned for a while but development started recently. My guess would be January but I certainly can't guarantee anything. It could be ready sooner/later.
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Luke Abell
@Dan Bitzer: Thanks for the update - still on track for January?
Dan Bitzer
@Luke Abell: I don't think so, we're aiming for Q1 2020. We might have a beta out beforehand if you're interested in trying that.
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Luke Abell
@Dan Bitzer: Absolutely! We are in the process of building similar functionality that hooks into our data models to query existing orders/users/members/etc using custom triggers/rules. We’ve been diving deep into the AutomateWoo core so a beta would be much appreciated to avoid double work on our end as we build it out!
Dan Bitzer
@Luke Abell: Ok great I'll let you know when we've got a beta ready!
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Luke Abell
@Dan Bitzer: Thank you!!
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Saul
@Dan Bitzer - I'd love to get access to beta too when it's ready!
Dan Bitzer
@Saul: Sure, will let you know! Thanks!
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Luke Abell
@Dan Bitzer: Any update on this? Are you guys still on track for Q1 2020? - thanks!
Dan Bitzer
@Luke Abell: A few things are in flux at the moment but I'm hopeful for a Q1 beta version at the least.
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Luke Abell
@Dan Bitzer: Sorry to be a pain! Any update here?
Dan Bitzer
@Luke Abell: We are still working on it. There have been some delays but I can't see a beta taking longer than a month. (hopefully sooner)
Here's a teaser https://d.pr/v/14VEuN
Lauren Goldstein
@Dan Bitzer: I would love to beta too!
Benedikt Huster
Another use case:
Manually target all customers that have an active subscription with a specific product when there's an update to the product. This would be perfect to send out notifications about software updates or when there's new additional content for a digital product subscription.
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